Chapter 146: The Dangerous Heresy Treatment Authority

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Meanwhile, the underground car park.

The door of the car next to Tang Erda's parking space is slowly pushed open.

Mu Sicheng, who had been keeping watch, got out of the car and walked very quickly to the lift, watching as Tang Erda entered and the fast descending lift finally stopped at -4.

They looked at each other and Liu Jiayi swiped Su Yang's work pass to open the lift, then pressed the -4 button.

Liu Jiayi's gaze is fixed on the red alarm that keeps flashing in the lift, Mu Sicheng's face is so dark you can feel the grey, and Muke is silent.

"Tsk." Mu Sicheng let out the breath he'd been holding in his chest while listening to Tang Erda and Bai Liu in the car, "Can I beat up this Tang guy later? "

"Did he say anything wrong?" Liu Jiayi asks nonchalantly and rhetorically.

Mu Sicheng is choking - in a way, this Tang really didn't say anything wrong ...... Bai Liu is a guy who is nasty from head to toe, every hair on his head... ...

But it's ...... that's rather unpleasant!

"But so what if he's right, I'm upset too." Liu Jiayi's eyes averted from the siren, her nose wrinkled, a rare touch of childishness on her face, "I'll do my best to buy you time, and you can beat that upset out of me too."

Mu Sicheng was stunned for a moment, then curled his lips, "OK."

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On the fourth basement level, Bai Liu moves quickly between the different passages.

On both sides of the passage are oddly shaped and numbered metal rooms, all with a similar style of painting and occasionally making all sorts of eerie noises.

Even more problematic is the patrolmen on every corner.

These patrols, although small in number, were arranged in such a way that Bai Liu was not able to enter the game smoothly, his entry always being interrupted by patrols suddenly turning around corners.

This made Bai Liu realise that the patrol layout was probably designed by Tang Erda to target [the players] on purpose.

With these ordinary people patrolling the area, it is difficult for [players] to enter the game easily.

Tang Erda first used [Magic Space] to make a small cage for Bai Liu, and when Bai Liu escaped from this small cage, he would enter a larger, mobile cage laid out by these patrollers.

Bai Liu presses himself against the wall as he regulates his breathing and prepares to try one last time.

Bai Liu took out the coin from his lanyard and prepared to enter the game, but as he was about to summon the system, a patrolman turned the corner at the other end of his passage and Bai Liu had to put the coin down and turn around to enter another passage.

Sure enough, these inflection points [patrollers] amount to an interrupting device.

Bai Liu runs briskly and quickly while being chased by the patrolman behind him, glancing at the room markers to his left and right - 1097, 1096 ......

Bai Liu's room number for the escape was 006 and he was now up to a thousand, but he hadn't seen all the numbers throughout and it felt like he had taken a shortcut straight to one of the rooms.

...... was not an illusion, the group of patrolmen were deliberately herding him towards a certain numbered room.

Bai Liu's footsteps stop at another corner and his eyes stop at the end of the corridor, where he is being driven to a dead end.

The room at the end of the cul-de-sac is numbered [1087].

Tang Erda, who was watching all this through the monitors, raised her communication instrument and gave the order brutally, "All patrolmen put on your breathing masks, I will turn on the waterproof mode, then open the door to the room of the heresy [1087], name [Devouring Fountain], about to enter the underwater mode, all team members please get ready - -"

"-- 3, 2--"

The small windows in the metal doors of the rooms on all sides of Bai Liu clicked shut one after the other, the doors of each small room sinking and pushing outwards to form the smooth metal walls of the corridor on two sides, and the patrolman opposite him was putting a transparent breathing mask on himself as the final sound of the countdown came over the communicator -

"-- 1."

Behind Bai Liu, the door to [1087] was slowly opened.

The clear, steady flow of the spring rolls out, the rushing torrent and splash reflecting in the eyes of Bai Liu, who turns back and is instantly swept away.

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Lift room.

The surveillance camera in the lift was smashed by Mu Sicheng as soon as they entered.

Mu Sicheng was a bit tense: "There's surveillance inside this base, right? Eh, do we need to hide from surveillance or something ......"

"There's no need to go into the base." Liu Jiayi's tone was indifferent, "Our aim is to infiltrate and then take Bai Liu into the game quickly, hiding from surveillance will delay us, they can film it if they like, I don't care."

Muke quickly said, "It doesn't matter to me either."

"...... fuck, but I have a final exam ......" Mu Sicheng was a bit depressed, "Can I take it in jail if I'm wanted, I don't want to make up the exam ......"

Liu Jiayi ignored Mu Sicheng's complaints and looked at the two men, "Let's go over the plan again, we don't know what's going on in there and we don't have a map, so to avoid being caught, we're implementing a coordinate jumping mechanism, which means if someone tries to catch you, you go into the game."

"Once you enter the game you get a logged in twelve digit coordinate number, when the three of us enter the game at the same time and meet up, we swap hazard coordinates with each other, then swap coordinates out and head to the original coordinates and rendezvous so we don't get separated and get a path curve. "

"The three of us go in three mutually perpendicular directions, which are equivalent to the z-axis, y-axis, and x-axis of a three-dimensional coordinate axis, and we determine different coordinate points in different directions and then connect them to the original coordinate points, and after a few times we can restore a complete path curve."

Liu Jiayi gestured with his hand around the three of them, "Buildings have rules, and once we have the general curve of this building, we can restore a rough map, got it?"

"Got it." Muke thought for a second or two, "I have a good memory, I can help you restore the whole map with the coordinate points."

Mu Sicheng with a wooden face: "......"

What the hell is this? He hasn't studied coordinate systems since he graduated from high school!

Liu Jiayi squints at Mu Sicheng: "Did you not understand?"

Mu Sicheng acknowledged with a depressed bow of his head, "Hmm."

The lift arrives with a "ding...".

Liu Jiayi turned his head and looked calmly towards the lift doors, "It's okay if you don't understand, you just follow my instructions."

She turned to the lift doors that were opening and sank down to give the order, "Prepare for an attack, there are usually men on guard at the lift doors. "

Liu Jiayi quickly climbs onto Mu Sicheng's shoulders to avoid being submerged as the lift doors slowly open and water rushes in, she frowns at the waves of water swirling into the lift.

The two patrolmen left at the lift door poked their heads in, "Are you the members of the second detachment who have been urgently drafted in to catch Heretic 006? Remember to put on your breathing masks, water is being used to capture-"

Their eyes soon fall on Liu Jiayi, a child who is clearly not supposed to be here.

"You're not the crew-?!" The two patrolmen raised the comms in their hands in disbelief ready to report, "Report, someone has infiltrated-!" The fourth basement level of the base!

Before they could say a word, Mu Sicheng and Muke, who were hiding by the door, dragged them in by the neck and put them down.

Mu Sicheng pulled off the two patrolmen's clothes and mask communicators and handed them to Muke, who stood in the sloshing, half-submerged water and struggled to change, before putting the two patrolmen in their own clothes and lowering them into the lift.

Muke pressed the -1 button and the two knocked out patrolmen, dressed in his and Mu Sicheng's clothes, leaned deliriously against the lift wall as the doors closed and rose.

A questioning voice came over the comm, "Hello?! What is the situation with an intruder?!"

Muke took the communicator handed to him by Mu Sicheng and reported, "We found two Buming intruders here at the entrance to the lift, we evicted them immediately and they are on their way to the -1 floor!"

With that, Muke turned off the communicator.

Mu Sicheng came out of the lift with Liu Jiayi on his back, shaking off the water on his hands and looking at the water that was almost up to his shoulders with a frown: "What's with all this water? "

"There's going to be a change of plan." Liu Jiayi removed her goggles, she looked cold, "Someone is trapping Bai Liu with water, I've played a round with Bai Liu and he has a very specific repulsion to water, I think it's likely that someone is torturing Bai Liu with water to get him to explain something, we need to hurry."

Mu Sicheng's face also changed as he looked over his shoulder at Liu Jiayi: "How fast? "

Liu Jiayi looks around at the gaps where the closed corridor doors fit into each other: "Someone has converted this floor into a hermetically sealed environment and then put water in to flood the Bai Liu who are fleeing inside, but it also makes this four-way corridor environment very much like a sewer."

Liu Jiayi looks down at the swaying water: "Bai Liu should be near the outlet of these sewer pipes, so it will be quicker for us to find him without using the more complicated coordinate system method before."

"I see." Muke reacted quickly, "With water flow, right?"

Liu Jiayi nods: "Yes, with the water flow."

"Not ......" Mu Sicheng condescendingly interrupted the two, "Can you occasionally say something that someone with seventy-four intelligence can understand?"

Liu Jiayi said breathlessly, "It means that we can tell where the water spout is by the direction and sound of the water flow, and then find Bai Liu."

"How can you tell?" Mu Sicheng still doesn't get it, "There's no way to pinpoint this, is there? It's not like there's just one stream here ......"

Liu Jiayi casually handed his goggles to Mu Sicheng interrupting him, "Hold them for me."

Mu Sicheng took it with a confused look, then Liu Jiayi took a sharp breath and dove into the water, and within a second she was floating again, pointing in one direction and then turning her head to "look" in Mu Sicheng's direction with slight disgust, as if she didn't want to spend more time explaining this to the simpleton.

"In the water I can tell where the water is by the sound of the water and the direction of the current." Liu Jiayi makes a follow-me gesture, "as well as where you are standing because the water is blocked and forms a backflow around you, there will be a sound and I can also rely on that to determine if there is someone in front of me."

Muke looks over to Mu Sicheng, who compassionately adds to the still slightly dazed Mu Sicheng: "It's like a fish discerning the direction of the current by the somatosensory lateral lines of its abdomen."

Liu Jiayi nodded: "That's pretty much what it means."

"How can you even do that?!" Mu Sicheng looked in disbelief at Liu Jiayi who was undulating in the water, "Hey! This is the real world! Are you a human or a monster? That's a superpower, isn't it?"

Liu Jiayi did not reply to Mu Sicheng's words, but simply gave him a blank look, turned around and swam into the water as freely as a fish entering it.

She would this one because she was born blind and her senses would be several levels more acute than normal.

Another is that she is quite used to surviving like a fish in the water.

As a child, Liu Jiayi was often thrown into a weir by her father to feel for fish. In order to find enough fish to make the man mercifully spare her, Liu Jiayi evolved fish-like senses in order to chase the cunning fish that swam in holes in the mud and sludge.

She had always hated this ability she possessed, but this moment was the exception.

"Whoever made the decision to release the water. " Liu Jiayi touches a handful of her face as she shakes the water droplets from her hands, her body sinking in the water, her tone calm and cold, "while he was preparing to torture Bai Liu with this thing called water, it also made it easier for me, a blind man, to use the water to find him. "

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"-148, 149, 150 - that'll do, drain."

The door to [1087]'s room closes, the walls on both sides of the corridor loosen and water spills through the gaps in the walls.

Bai Liu chokes and coughs as he emerges from the water.

He fell to his knees with his head bowed, arching his back and choking hard, his white shirt wetting and clinging to his shivering shoulder blades.

Bai Liu's complexion takes on an inorganic white colour when soaked in water, his fingertips are even bruised from lack of oxygen, his chest is heaving violently, and the three-minute long suffocating experience has left him completely deflated.

Soon Bai Liu went limp, his mouth wide open and his eyes slack as he fell to the ground on his back, his lungs struggling to clutch the oxygen that was not easily available.

But it felt as if the oxygen was no longer getting into his lungs by breathing hard, and Bai Liu looked like he was going into shock.

"How did it feel to be in the water for three minutes? Are you still used to it?"

Tang Erda's voice came unsteadily from the comm in the patrolman's hand at the end of the corridor, "They say the longest man in the world can hold his breath for thirteen minutes, do you want to try Bai Liu ?"

"Does it bring back any bad memories?" Tang Erda's voice trailed off, "Have you thought about what you're going to do about the dried rose leaf gas scenario?"

"Death will not compromise you at all, you are not afraid of death at all, so I will not threaten you with death, now you are given two choices, the first, after giving an honest account of the solution to the Rose Dry Leaf Gas, I will give you a sum of money that will satisfy you, if you do not back out and do what you need to do honestly, we will not interfere with you anymore."

"The second option, that is I'll lock you in with this [Devouring Spring], I'll empty the water for you every minute and a half to three minutes, you won't die, but you'll be soaking in the water all the time and all the time, you should be familiar with this suffocating feeling, right?"

Tang Erda laughed lightly in a meaningful Buming way, her voice sinking in tone, "After all, the director of the private orphanage back then, loved to teach you like that, you were so bad, you were so strangely bad from a young age, she wanted to steer you back to the right path, so she used to teach you like that."

"It's a pity that no matter how harshly she teaches you, you don't change or show any expression, and as someone who is naturally inclined to torment people, Bai six, you should understand very well that teaching such children is very unfulfilling." Tang Erda trailed off, so calmly that he looked like he was giving a death row inmate a lecture.

Bai Liu puts his arms over his eyes to shield them from the harsh white light at the top, and his breathing fades.

Tang Erda continued, "So she switched it up a lot and finally found the way you would struggle with the torture, and that was to make yourself-"

Tang Erda's words were interrupted by the voice of a struggling Lu Yizhan, who yelled at the top of his lungs, trying to drown out Tang Erda's voice and not let him go on: "Stop it! He's forgotten! Don't let him think about it again!!!"

But Tang Erda raised her voice and continued coldly, his voice like a sharp thorn in Bai Liu's still blank and dizzy brain after the choking.

Bai Liu frowned in a rare moment of subconscious rejection of what Tang Erda was saying, a rejection that even made his head ache as if it were cracking open.

"Have you forgotten all about it Bai six ? No one pushed you into the water at all! You were the one who kept putting your head in!

"Because someone took the blame for the bad things you did, someone took the punishment from the group of teachers to protect you, but the group missed in punishing him and he was tortured and drowned in the orphanage pond as he kept being crushed under the water."

"His body was sinking under the water and you kept burying your head in to look at his body under the water, trying to pull him out."

Tang Erda's tone sank to the bottom: "- Bai six why are you afraid of the water, you are not afraid of the water at all, you are afraid of seeing the body in the water, do you remember who he is?! "

Lu Yizhan struggled with all his strength to stop Tang Erda, his voice tearing at his heart: "Don't tell him!!!"

Tang Erda's tone is low: "His original name was Xie Ta, but in this timeline you forget him and take him for Lu Yizhan."

"Do you remember whether the face of Xie Ta that you saw when you were submerged down there was beside you keeping you company or gazing at you from under the water! "

"Really Xie Ta has died for you, get your head out of your ass!"

Thanks ...... tower ......?

Bai Liu saw a dazzling white light amidst the suffocating sensation of near death.

The white light flashes through countless memories that Bai Liu has either consciously or unconsciously avoided forgetting.

Memories turned to shards came in a flurry of white light, shattered like a torn picture book, scattered into pieces, black and white, or the edges of coloured pages with the fragmented profile of another person he had forgotten.

Then, in Tang Erda's cold voice, the blurred or forgotten edges of these memories were pieced back together in Bai Liu's mind into a complete, page-by-page picture, which then began to play back before his eyes, frame by frame, like a walking light before a person dies, with the noise of long years.

The human memory can deceive its owner.

When you can't cope with the intense emotions carried inside the memory, the memory is kind enough to automatically correct itself, allowing the owner to pretend to go on with life calmly with a disguise as if nothing had happened.

In layman's terms, it is self-defeating.

The memories are automatically cut into an acceptable shape and stored in Bai Liu's brain, which will not easily change back to its original form until the last moment.

The face of the honest and simple Lu Yizhan is erased in the white light of long-ago memories and becomes another, Bai Liu's familiar and unfamiliar face.

The face was beautifully boned, but always seemed to let very long, with somewhat wavy hair hanging down to cover his eyes, but revealing lips that were still beautifully delicate, a very striking look.

He turned his head away from the forgotten memories to look at Bai Liu and whispered his name, "Bai six, it's been a long time.